Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 225
ilt on the New Yorkside of the river had to be carried down muchdeeper than on the Brooklyn side. It, too, standson top of the great box, and the two towers thushave their feet in wooden shoes to keep them firmand dry. By the time the sinking caissons had found aresting-place, the towers had been… … foundationdown with it,and the stonework rising higher at the same time.But all this was not done without great difficulty and danger.Once the caisson took fire. Sev-eral times the air escaped, andrushed out of the caisson in a terrible fountain ofmud and water. Stones were caught under theedge of…
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